By Elaine Grublin

Please plan to join us at one of this week’s events:

On Tuesday, 8 February, at 5:15 PM Megan Kate Nelson, Harvard University, will present the next installment of the Boston Environmental History Seminar.  Megan will present  her paper “‘They fluttered like birds in a snare’: Battling the Desert in the Confederate Campaign for New Mexico, 1862.”  Anthony N. Penna of Northeastern University will give the comment.  

On Thursday, 10 February, at 6:00  our new conversation series, Dangers & Denial: Cautionary Tales for Our Times, kicks off with The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, presented by Andrew Bacevich of Boston University.  Pre-event refreshments will be served at 5:30.  Reserve your spot online.

And do not forget our weekly building tour, The History and Collections of the MHS, at 10:00 AM on Saturday.